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AI & Jobs Alibaba filed its June-quarter numbers on August 21. Revenue up 9%, net income down 76%, capital expenditure up 75%. Eddie Wu gave investors a payback date for the first time: three years, maybe two.
AI & Jobs JD released its robot strategy at the World Robot Conference on August 19: 10B yuan-scale investment through 2028, an after-sales network across 100-plus countries, 80 RoboBase sites, and a pledge of more than 100,000 new robot service engineer roles.
AI & Jobs The South China Morning Post reported on August 18 that Nokia plans to close nearly all mainland China sites in stages by year end, keeping limited after-sales. This is not a company cutting R&D. It is a company moving R&D out of a country.